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Assiut Barrage in Egypt: Past, Present and Future Ayman F ge Syst Batisha, Irrigat Drainage Sys Eng 2012, 1:2 ina em a s r D E n DOI: 10.4172/2168-9768.1000e104 & g i n n o e i t e a r i g n i r g r Irrigation & Drainage Systems Engineering I ISSN: 2168-9768 Editorial Open Access Assiut Barrage in Egypt: Past, Present and Future Ayman F. Batisha* Environment and Climate Research Institute, National Water Research Center, Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation, Cairo, Egypt, Tel. 20-2-0100-6443210, Email: [email protected]. Water Resources is becoming increasingly scarce due to construction of 2 navigation locks of 150m x 17m according to the latest unsustainable consumption and use behavior such as overexploitation international technologies to accommodate the increase in the river and pollution in Egypt. In Irrigation sector, the extraction and use and tourism transport units; the construction of a 4-lanes upper bridge of water by landowners is not sufficiently regulated to protect nation over the new barrage with capacity 70 tons to link the East and West and local communities from the depletion and pollution of the water banks of the River Nile in Assiut. The Barrage Project components are: resources. In practice, groundwater can be extracted and Nile river Sluiceway with 8 radial gates 17 m wide and Road Bridge; Hydropower water can be diverted to irrigate fields at will. The impact of climate plant: Low-head hydropower plant with 4 bulb units of 8 MW, total change also poses a further threat to food security. Assiut Barrage capacity 32 MW; new navigation lock: 120 x 17m chamber in addition plays a key role in both Egypt’s food self sufficiency and secures the to the refurbished 80 x 16 m existing navigation lock; Closure dam: livelihood of nearly 6.0 million people. embankment type, 11m high; Rehabilitation of the existing navigation lock; Replacement and Rehabilitation of the existing Ibrahimiya canal Assiut Barrage was constructed between 1892 and 1902 to sustain a head regulator; and Transmission line. water level difference of about 4 m in order to feed the Ibrahimia Canal. Since its completing in 1902, Assiut Barrage, along with the old Aswan The Barrage Project study’s components are included: Physical Dam, remains in service as the oldest Barrage on the Nile in Upper and mathematical hydraulic modeling of the Barrage and river course, Egypt. The two other old Barrages (Naga Hamadi and Isna Barrages) groundwater/seepage and foundation analysis; Determination of were replaced with new Barrages in the 1990s. Assiut Barrage supplies design parameters; feasibility level designs for technical alternatives up to 440 m3/s of Nile water. With total length about 350 km, Ibrahimia of the chosen option; preliminary design of the new barrage; Canal irrigates an area of almost 690.000 ha of Nile valley land in Upper Environmental and socio-economic study; capacity building and Egypt. The barrage was remodeled by 1938 to increase the permissible institutional development; economic and technical feasibility of headpond level difference to 4.2 m and thereby increasing the capacity of providing hydropower generation at the barrage site; Comparison the Ibrahimia Canal. After construction of High Aswan Dam in 1960s, of rehabilitation option with the new barrage option by economic, and during 1970s and 1980s, structural stability of Assiut Barrage has technical, environmental analysis; Demonstration of the viability of been reduced due to subsequent change in flow regime of the Nile and the chosen option by carrying out a full assessment of the technical, accelerated riverbed degradation downstream the barrages, so higher economic and environmental issues; Tender Design, Tender documents heads and higher hydraulic forces across the barrage structure and the and assistance in tendering procedures; Construction supervision; civil works have been affected by age and also by tail water erosion as a Preparation and implementation of an environmental management consequence of a modified river regime. plan; and Training and integration of counterpart personnel, seminars and presentations. On the Nile River, as a milestone of a National Program of rehabilitation and upgrading barrages, Egypt intends to replace the Egypt laid the foundation stone of New Assiut Barrage. The barrage existing Nile barrage in Assiut with a new one. New Assiut Barrage aims at modifying the irrigation of 1.65 million feddan, about 20% of would provide an increase in the allowed head, allowing more water the cultivated land in middle Egypt including 5 governorates: Assiut, discharges into the Ibrahimiya Canal and will improve navigation Menia, Bani Suief, Fayoum and Giza. The barrage executed works conditions. The new Barrage will also include a low head hydropower with total cost value EGP 2.4 billion (475 M€) will be achieved by a plant providing about 40 Megawatts. Egypt has investigated the options consortium comprising of international and local Contractors. New of rehabilitation of the existing Assiut Barrage and the Ibrahimiya Assiut Barrage Study showed the technical and economical feasibility head regulator against reconstruction of a new barrage with a hydro- of the rehabilitation of the existing barrage including the installation power plant. Two alternatives at the same level for correct evaluation of a hydropower plant. The New Assiut Barrage Project has very have been analyzed, the first option “New Assiut Barrage 200-300 m promising positive aspects in relation to sustainable development, downstream of the existing one with hydropower plant” and the other poverty alleviation, social and economic development in Egypt. alternative is “Rehabilitation with hydropower”. The most economic option is constructing a new Barrage 200 m downstream of the existing barrage with power generating capabilities. There is a concern that the new maximum pool level will increase the groundwater levels in Assiut city and in some areas in the upstream. Dealing with this situation, different layouts of the project have been studied and some mitigation measures have been suggested. The corresponding measures would *Corresponding author: Ayman F. Batisha, Environment and Climate Research cover an increase of the headpond level for improvement of waterintake Institute, National Water Research Center, Ministry of Water Resources and to Ibrahimia Canal, improvement of navigation conditions as well Irrigation, Cairo, Egypt, Tel. 20-2-0100-6443210; E-mail: [email protected] as optimization hydropower output, without serious environmental Received June 14, 2012; Accepted June 14, 2012; Published June 18, 2012 impacts. Citation: Batisha AF (2012) Assiut Barrage in Egypt: Past, Present and Future. Irrigat Drainage Sys Eng 1:e104. doi:10.4172/2168-9768.1000e104 The proposed Barrage is multipurpose Project: irrigation, navigation, and hydropower. New Assiut Barrage Project consists of Copyright: © 2012 Batisha AF. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted an embankment dam, a gated spillway, a river hydropower plant and use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and a navigation lock in the river Nile. The project scope of works: the source are credited. Irrigat Drainage Sys Eng Volume 1 • Issue 2 • 1000e104 ISSN: 2168-9768 IDSE, an open access journal.
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